It’s this. I always was amazed that parents could ignore the suffering of children. I became a parent and felt that suffering even more acutely. But I’ve come to realize a great percentage of parents view their children as property.

Edit: So I guess this is somewhat of a contradiction that I don’t know how to explain. If liberal parents view their children as property, why wouldn’t they call out the abhorrence of Israel’s violence against them? Do they somehow perceive the relationship between oppressed parents and their oppressed children as different? Is there an instinct that tells them to reject the anguish of Gazan parents clutching their dismembered children? As if to tell them they will never feel this love for their own children, their own property?

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 week ago

They view their children as property. They don’t even view Palestinians as human. When they see the devastation inflicted on the children of Gaza, they don’t see their own children and feel a parent’s anguish (or a miser’s jealousy, which is all they can muster for their own kids). For the children of Gaza, they see a kicked anthill and feel disgust at all the pests they have to look at “in their nice, clean space”. They want them to go away, and they’re resentful for having to think about them at all.

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Humans are complicated. The wealthy classes may view them as property, but humans are able to fight back, which makes them less "cute" and idealistic in the eyes of the bougies.